Best 157 quotes in «communist quotes» category

People are actually very good at being communists in the sense that they instantly abandon capitalism, that they love these relationships of mutual aid, because the astonishing thing about disasters is that people are often weirdly joyous in them, because they've recovered a sense of agency, a sense of power, etc.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

Some people say to me, "My God, but Fidel Castro is a communist!" I say: "No, he was a messenger of God.

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to be said that spies practically kept the Party going with their dues and contributions.

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks peace, harmony and reconciliation, unlike the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

That's why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse [Dalton] Trumbo of being a hypocrite.

The communists pave the way for him (the Jew).

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

The Communist Party must be a revolutionary party our it will cease to be a Communist Party.

The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed the collectives elsewhere.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists in united fronts.

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.

The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.

The Jew is an inborn Communist.

There's a communist living in the White House!

The rise of fascism in Europe sent most Americans home. Some black American communists who had emigrated to the Soviet Union perished in Stalin's purges of the late 1930s.

There are social democrats and others who are marching more in the direction of equality, whether you call them socialists or communists... Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.

The word "collective" is not so often used because it has been basically used by socialists and communists and has a different history. The word "cooperative" means the workplace itself is organized cooperatively, rather than in the conventional capitalistic, hierarchical form.

These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people.

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.

What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto!

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

When [Jean-Paul] Sartre was asked whether or not he would live under a communist regime he said, "No, for others it's fine, but for me, no." He said it! So it's hard to say just how intellectual his stance is. How can you think that never in your life would you go to live in a communist regime and still say it's fine for everybody? A very difficult thing, that, but Sartre managed it.

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

Whatever organisation we try to create, it always ends up looking like the Communist Party.

When you leave people behind, and those people who are left behind, it's not their fault, it's the leaders of the institutions. There's always going to be an elite. You can have an elite in a communist society. It is the leaders, something went wrong, and the leaders collectively are responsible.

With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.

Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system, in America - one of the so-called 'founders' was a Communist

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.